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Novel Writing Guides: Craft, Structure and…

Not seven plot structures and not a pep talk: the actual sequence of decisions a novel asks of you, each compressed to its central claim, with the full guide linked where you will need it.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Track character arcs

Character arcs: want, need, and the lie

Arcs that exist to unlock the third act read as compliance, and readers register compliance as flatness without knowing why.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Exposition without the infodump

Exposition without the infodump

For every invention you are proud of (the calendar, the guild structure, the three-tier magic system, the eleven noble houses) name the page on which it changes what a character can or cannot do.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Novel writing software

How to Choose Novel Writing Software

It is worth being blunt about our own position here: ChapterMuse is built the other way round, as one studio holding the plan, the story world, the draft, the revision and the finished files, so the plot grid, the timeline and…

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › What editors mean by pacing

What editors actually mean by pacing

You rendered something at scene length that wanted three sentences of summary, or, less often, summarised something the reader needed to live through.

CMwww.chaptermuse.com › Guide › Point of view and psychic distance

Point of view: psychic distance is a dial

Thirty-three words, three distances, and the shape of the entire story is already in them. So when is a filter right?